Tarrallton Elementary School

Military Kids Club

Mission: To provide a fun and safe place for military kids to be encouraged, strengthened, and connected in their school.

What is Military Kids Club?

• A military kids club is a school organization especially for military-connected students. A military kids club helps military kids plug in quickly at a new school and community during the Season of arriving providing a venue for meeting other students with similar military-life experiences.

Connection

• At a new school, students meet other mobile military kids who understand their perspective. Military kid’s clubs can also work in tandem with buddy programs that connect new students individually.

Deployment support:

• Military kids club can connect kids who are experiencing deployment, enabling them to share their feelings with other kids going through deployment. These connections relieve feelings of fear and isolation.

Awareness:

• The numbers and participation in the club give the school and school district a window into the military population in their school.

Action:

• Awareness of military-connected students inspires professional development for teachers and staff about the experiences and needs of those students.

Celebration:

• When military kids connect, and the school is more aware of their presence, celebrating them takes on a new emphasis. Military kids club members can even take the lead for celebrating Month of the Military Child each April.

Funding:

• Military Kids Club will use funding from fundraising efforts and events

Events